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Canada favors tech cooperation with J'lem
By SHARON UDASIN
Jerusalem Post
06/27/2012

‘Israel is a hotbed of innovation, technological activity,’ Canadian resources minister says before meeting with Uzi Landau.

With Canada’s widespread experience in natural resources regulation and development and Israel’s eminence as an innovation hub, the two countries would make ideal partners for collaborative advancement in both traditional and renewable energy fields, a Canadian minister told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.

Invest in Israel's epic oil and gas boom
Mike Kapsch, Investment U
7/5/2012

When I think of Middle Eastern nations with massive oil and gas reserves, Israel isn’t a country that comes to mind… ever, really.

After all, Israel still imports 99% of its oil and 70% of its natural gas.

In fact, for the last 60 years, energy companies there have basically drilled one dry hole after the next.

But that’s all getting ready to change in the coming years thanks to new drilling capabilities.

Map of pipeline route across Vermont

Will tar sands oil flow through Vermont?

by Craig Idlebrook | June 19, 2012
Vermont Digger

Editor’s note: A companion story to this piece, Environmental groups push for preemptive halt to oil transit, by Alan Panebaker, was published on VTDigger.org today.

More BS than Bitumen Flowing From Alberta After Third Recent Spill
by Damien Gillis l The Canadian.ca

A story in yesterday's Edmonton Journal on the latest pipeline spill in Alberta, this one near Elk Point, was more full of crap than the province's rivers and farms are full of oil these days.

Texas Activists Move Toward Tar Sands Blockade
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
By Candice Bernd, Truthout

Texas climate justice activists are prepared to use nonviolent, direct action to block the Keystone XL pipeline's construction.

Despite Spills, Enbridge Pushes For More Oil Sands Pipelines
6/26/2012

Alberta's three oil sand deposits are known as the Athabasca Oil Sands, the Cold Lake Oil Sands, and the Peace River Oil Sands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

India’s ONGC may bid for $5B Conoco oil sands assets

By Charlie Zhu, Reuters Jun 5, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR — Oil and Natural Gas Corp , India’s biggest state-owned energy explorer, is considering bidding for part of ConocoPhillips Canadian oil sands holdings worth around $5-billion, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Tuesday.

B.C. First Nations dispute Enbridge pipeline claims – British Columbia – CBC News
Posted on June 6, 2012 by admin

A group representing several B.C. First Nations says Enbridge is wrong to claim 60 per cent of aboriginal communities along the proposed route of the Northern Gateway pipeline have signed on to the project.

Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt says he has checked with every aboriginal group along the route from Alberta to Kitimat and only found two that have signed equity agreements with Enbridge.

Fort McMurray: Economic centre of Canada?

Claudia Cattaneo Jun 5, 2012
Financial Post

Fort McMurray, economic centre of Canada? Torontonians and the rest of the country had better get used to the idea. The Canadian economy will increasingly spin around the northern Alberta oil town if an industry forecast that shows Canada’s daily volumes will more than double to 6.2 million barrels a day by 2030, largely from the oil sands, proves right.

Canada to be among top three oil producers by 2030

By Yadullah Hussain, Financial Post

June 5, 2012

Canada could emerge as the top three or four oil producer in the world by 2030 thanks to rising oil sands supply, according to an industry forecast which focuses more on the possibilities that lay before the Canadian oil industry rather than its substantial challenges.